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Baykar Makina Company donates Bayraktar TV2 strike UAV to the DIU for Independence Day
📊In July 2022, Ukraine introduced a visa regime with Russia. Since then, only 62 Russian citizens have received visas to enter Ukraine, mostly to reunite with their families.
The UK will recognize the Wagner Group as a terrorist organization within a few weeks, the FT reports, citing sources in the British government.
This decision will effectively ban the PMC under British law, making it a criminal offense to belong to it, encourage its support, provide assistance or use its logo. [seems as if it might not be a pressing matter any more!]
Volodymyr Zelensky held a briefing following the Crimean Platform summit. Main points:
📍On the counteroffensive in the southern direction: "Everything is mined there. Very often, people are walking to avoid losing the scarce armored vehicles. If we had it in reserve, we could take the risk. First of all, people are important, then equipment. [...] No one is complaining, everyone is fighting."
📍Zelensky rejected the idea of redeploying troops from east to south, as some American media reported, citing military experts.
"Does anyone realize how many people there are, how many occupiers there are in the east? Approximately 200 thousand. [...] Let's take our armed forces from there and move them somewhere. But after that, a couple of days, and [the Russians will take] Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, then they will go to Pavlohrad, Dnipro, cut off the banks. But we will not allow this, and let all the analysts in the world not even count on it."
📍On more intensive mobilization. "To be honest, the military asked me to do this to give them the opportunity to mobilize more. I can't tell you anything else. The issue of military registration and enlistment offices, the very important issue of medical commissions at military registration and enlistment offices - we need to speed up the processes as quickly as possible, put things in order, and then start talking about increasing the number of people to be mobilized."
📍 When asked how long Ukraine "can still hold out," Zelensky replied: "We have no chance to do anything else but continue to defend our state and de-occupy our territory. We are fighting for what is ours."
❗️❗️In case of Prigozhin's death, the PMC "Wagner" has developed a plan of action, which is launched immediately, reports the pro-Kremlin Readovka. The mechanism is introduced automatically, what it consists of - it is unknown. The publication's source says that in any case, it will be "very bad news". [Can't say Im holding my breath over it]
The New York Post called https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1694401008326123679 Prigozhin a dissident.
Lol
Alexander Lukashenko congratulated the "brotherly Ukrainian people" on the country's independence day and wished peace to reign on the Ukrainian land.
In Avdiivka, Donetsk region, where approximately 40,000 people lived until 2014, 1,691 people now live. Most of them are elderly, although there are also young people under 30.
These figures were provided by Vitaliy Barabash, head of the Avdiivka city military administration.
❗️❗️Dmitry Utkin, Prigozhin's right-hand man, was also on board the crashed plane, according to the Russian media. [First time I saw this pic I thought it was someone half-way through being made up as an orc extra for a film]
Many small holes can be seen on the downed Prigozhin plane.
The photo was posted by Russian telegram channels. This is what the damage from air defense munitions looks like.